- When it opened on May 24, 1883, the neo-Gothic Brooklyn Bridge debuted as the world's first steel-wire suspension bridge, with the 1,596-foot main span between...
- The name it bears today, Brooklyn Bridge, was also not its complete original name, which was actually named New York and Brooklyn Bridge.
- The park was completed, with the dedication of Emily Roebling Plaza under the Brooklyn Bridge, in December 2021.
- Immortalised countless times in films and series, the Brooklyn Bridge has become one of the world’s most famous bridges.
- And now it is one of the major tourist attractions and can be combined with the Brooklyn Bridge Park at the Brooklyn waterfront.
- That depends on whether you want to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan into Brooklyn or from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
- Brooklyn Bridge is a suspension bridge with cable-stays, road bridge, tramway, light or metro rail bridge, pedestrian bridge (footbridge), steel bridge and...
- In 1898, fifteen years after the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn citizens decided in a close vote to become a borough of New York.
- It is known as the 8th wonder of the world. The bridge, initially known as the East River Bridge, was renamed Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.
- In this watercolor made from the boardwalk of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking through the network of suspension cables, the tallest tower is the Singer Building.